"Epox KX133 don't hold your breath"

For all you out there thinking that the KX133 chipset is the savior of the Athlon should stop for a sec. The KX133 is a via chipset and as you may know via is mostly talk and very little performance. I fell for it and was one of the first to get a Epox KX133 board. I slapped in a .18micron 700 athlon, a TNT2, and PC133 crucial memory and booted the sucker up. The only way to get Quake II time demo to run was a AGP 2x and host clock (100Mhz) memory. Anything higher crashed the system. I tried a Voodoo3 and got the same results and I disabled hardware acceleration and it crashed even faster. With AgP 2x and PC100 you might as well buy an AMD750 board. But it gets better. in DVD playback (on both boards) the machine Hangs in the first ~20 minutes. In FFVIII i can play for about 1 minute on one board and 40 minutes on the other before it hangs. Another friend of mine doesn't get the crashes but the onboard audio breaks up in DVD playback. This board is horrable. Since I have the processor and memory I cannot go back but for everyone out there waiting for the KX133 chip give up. I was fortunate to buy my boards from a company with a forgiving return policy and I hope to get MSI K7 pro boards in a week but most aren't that nice and the epox board represents $152 down the drain.